One of the most tone-deaf suggestions in the Brexit proceedings so far came in August 2017, when the UK Brexit team released a long-awaited position paper setting out its proposal on how to manage its border with Ireland. It suggested that "technology-based solutions" - meaning blockchain, the...

Marktpreisrisiken von industriellen Verbrauchsgütern oder, nach Gutenberg (1983) und Heinen (1992), Repetierfaktoren waren schon immer ein zentrales Thema in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Eine zunehmende Intensität von Marktpreisrisiken, wie sie in den letzten Jahren beobachtet...

Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it discusses how the functioning and performance of food chains are affected by the way stakeholders are embedded in the chains, by the coordination modes, and by the kind of governance. Second, by depicting six relevant agro-food chains, attention is...